I have been having problems with my left knee since December. I was running up a hill and all of a sudden I felt a really sharp pain on the inside of my left knee. After a few weeks I saw an orthopedic PA. I got an MRI and it showed that there was no ligament damage and that I may or may not have a torn medial meniscus-they couldn't say definitively.
At the beginning of January I got a cortisone injection. I got no relief, so the PA referred me to an orthopedic surgeon. By this time the pain was basically in the middle of the medial side of the knee. He told me that that sounded more like an inflamed plical band. So, last week I got a 2nd cortisone injection where the plica is.
It has been a week and it no longer hurts along the entire side of my knee. However, now I keep getting this sharp, kind of pinching pain lower down on the medial side of my left knee (i.e. just below the kneecap and over the tibia).
Is it possible to have a torn meniscus AND an inflamed plica?
2007-02-01 10:17:20 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Injuries
Plica means fold. Yes, you can have a torn meniscus and a fold in the tissue that is inflamed. (You don't want the fold to be there.) A PA (physician's assistant) is not as knowledgeable as a doctor. Is the Orthopedic Surgeon one who specializes in knees? He should be. If necessary, he can put a small probe into the knee with a camera on the tip and look inside the knee to see what's really going on, and it shows up on a monitor like a TV. If there's a problem, he can do surgery through small incisions, using tiny instruments while he sees what he's doing by watching on a TV screen.
2007-02-01 10:30:03 · answer #1 · answered by jelmar106 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with the second guy. Sounds plica to me and now you could have some inflammation under the patella due to altered tracking from the plica condition altering your gait mechanics.
2007-02-01 10:43:47 · answer #2 · answered by Sowhat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋